Marcato
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Description

Marcato allows you to create site-specific browsers on your iPhone. Marcato maintains separate cookies, local storage, and cache for each browser. The browsers live within the Marcato app. You can also add individual Marcato browsers to your home screen.

Use a site-specific browser to prevent, for example, your Facebook account from being tied to your other web browsing activity.

Are you constantly logging in and out of a web site using different accounts? With Marcato, you can create a separate browser for each account.

Create a site-specific browser for a financial account, and avoid logging in to that account from your primary browser. This limits your exposure to cross-site request forgery attacks.

Marcato supports the 1Password and LastPass iOS 8 extensions.

Questions?Email us at: support@goldenhillsoftware.com

The Story Behind Marcato:I use Facebook to keep up with family and friends, but Facebook's approach to privacy gives me pause about running the Facebook app or logging in to Facebook with my primary browser. On the Mac I use a Fluid site-specific browser to visit Facebook, but there was nothing similar for iOS. I also prefer to use either a dedicated app or a site-specific browser when logging in to financial accounts. I use Fluid to do this on the Mac, but there was no similar offering for iOS. I decided to write one.

What’s New

Version History

1.2

Jun 10, 2015

• Marcato browsers now support a full screen mode. As you scroll down a web page, the navigation bar and toolbar will slide away.• Marcato now supports a URL scheme. You can open a browser using the URL com.goldenhillsoftware.marcato:///browsers/[browser name], replacing [browser name] with the name of your browser.• The About screen now includes a Documentation area and an Acknowledgements area.• Marcato now allows the Initial URL and the Included Hosts settings for browsers created from templates to be modified by the user.

1.1

May 13, 2015

This update incorporates the ability to add a Marcato browser to your home screen. You can add a browser to your home screen by tapping the Activity/Share button in the toolbar, and then tapping “Add to Home Screen” in the resulting Share Sheet.

I believe the first non-Apple iOS app to provide a way to add bookmarks to the Home Screen was Workflow. Until Workflow was released, I believed that doing so was not possible from within the iOS app sandbox. I want to publicly thank the Workflow developers for paving the way for Marcato and for other apps with similar needs.

1.0

Apr 15, 2015

Jun 10, 2015

Version 1.2

• Marcato browsers now support a full screen mode. As you scroll down a web page, the navigation bar and toolbar will slide away.• Marcato now supports a URL scheme. You can open a browser using the URL com.goldenhillsoftware.marcato:///browsers/[browser name], replacing [browser name] with the name of your browser.• The About screen now includes a Documentation area and an Acknowledgements area.• Marcato now allows the Initial URL and the Included Hosts settings for browsers created from templates to be modified by the user.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5

5 Ratings

5 Ratings

Paul, just Paul ...
,05/06/2017

Nice! And extremely useful.

This app allows you to make a dedicated browser session for a given site. So you can pin a website to your home screen through it, and will always open and the same tab again, rather than creating a new tab every time. If you've ever used Fluid on the Mac (or the site that creates a dedicated version of Chrome for a given site), you will know how useful this is. You can essentially turn a Web app into an app on your phone.

I would love to see this work on the iPad as well.

Paul, just Paul ...
,05/06/2017

Nice! And extremely useful.

This app allows you to make a dedicated browser session for a given site. So you can pin a website to your home screen through it, and will always open and the same tab again, rather than creating a new tab every time. If you've ever used Fluid on the Mac (or the site that creates a dedicated version of Chrome for a given site), you will know how useful this is. You can essentially turn a Web app into an app on your phone.

I would love to see this work on the iPad as well.

BLGriff
,11/14/2015

Good - needs some love

Wanted and _almost_ got Fluid for iOS. It is a good start, useful app for sure.

Facebook is not working well, it seems to need some tweaking. Would also love to see it using the iOS 9 adblocker extensions.

BLGriff
,11/14/2015

Good - needs some love

Wanted and _almost_ got Fluid for iOS. It is a good start, useful app for sure.

Facebook is not working well, it seems to need some tweaking. Would also love to see it using the iOS 9 adblocker extensions.

_AGNDA_
,08/13/2015

Brett Terpstra would approve. Fluid for iOS!

Works great! Love the dark theme btw. 👌🏻

Well worth the $4.99 price tag IMO.

Would love to see some built-in Adblock support. Fluid for iOS + no ads would be game-changing.

Keep it up dev! Will definitely be recommending this app to everyone I know.

_AGNDA_
,08/13/2015

Brett Terpstra would approve. Fluid for iOS!

Works great! Love the dark theme btw. 👌🏻

Well worth the $4.99 price tag IMO.

Would love to see some built-in Adblock support. Fluid for iOS + no ads would be game-changing.

Keep it up dev! Will definitely be recommending this app to everyone I know.